Apparatus for applying adhesive to wrapping-paper



w.1. ELDER'AND c. N. MOREHOUSE. APPARATUS FOR APPLYING ADHESIVE T0 WRAPPING PAPER.

- APPLICATION FILED APR. 2. 1920. 1,399,051-

Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

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J. ELDER AND C. N. MOREHOUSE. APPARATUS FOR APPLYING ADHESIVE T0 WRAPPING PAPER.

' APPLICATION FILED APR. 2. 1920. v

. Patented D60. 6, 1921.

v ceptacle having a guide device WILLIAM J. ELDER AND CHARLES N. MOREHO'USE, OF OSWEG-O, .EW YORK, ASSIGNORS" TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO,- ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION" OF ILLINOIS.

APPARATUS FOR APPLYING ADHESIVE 'IO WRAPPING-PAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 6, 192.1.

Application filed April 2, 1920. Serial No. 370,630.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM J. ELDER and CHARLES .N. MOREI-IOUSE, both citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of 'Oswego, inthe county of Oswego and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatusv for Applying Adhesive to VVrapping- Paper, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide mechanism of simple and efficient construction and operation for facilitating the economical application of paste, or other suitable adhesive substance, to wrapping paper as a step in the operation of packaging boxes ofmatches and the like.

' The invention, generally stated, consists in the provision of a unitary bodily recipro: cable paste receptacle having a plurality of discharge openings so constructed and. arranged that a wrapper sheet can be readily positioned in such relation to the openings that paste can be economically deposited therebyat predetermined spots on the sheet, such spots being so located that the adhesive substance thereon when the articles are wrapped unites the contiguous folds or layers of the wrapper upon the top and, ends of the package.v

The-invention'also comprises a paste reconstructed and arranged to facilitate and insure the accurate positioning of the boxes on the wrapper.

The invention also comprises novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will. be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a wrapper pasting apparatus embodying a simple form. of our invention, showing a pile of wrapper sheets positioned beneath the paste receptacle. a

Fig. 2 is an endelevation of the apparatus.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one corner of-the bottom plate, as inverted, and the ad jacent portion ofthe paste receptacle, showing one of the discharge openings of the plate and also the depending portion of, a side wall of'the receptacle.

. chambers Fig. 4 is a horizontal section ofthe apparatus, on the line 4-4: of Fig. 2, showing a group of boxes positioned'on the wrapper sheets. I

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal vertical section of the apparatus, on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

eferring to the drawings, 5 designates a table having thereon suitably-disposed guides, suchas the adjustable angle-pieces 6, adapted, in the present form of our invention, to determine, the position on the table of a pile of wrapper sheets, as7, to which, successively, paste or other adhesive substance is properly applied. Obviously the sheets may be fed or delivered successively to and positioned on the table, either I l1opper-like feed chambers, the lower ends of which bound and communicate with suitablylocated discharge openings 12, 12' in a horizontal bottom plate upon which the structure is bodily supported. This plate comprises a main portion 13 having the opening 12. with which the rear chamber 9 communicates, and two forward end extensions .14 having the openings 12 with which the respective sidechambers 10 communicate.

The discharge openings are formed and arranged to overlie the wrapper sheet at or near its rear and side edges respectively, and hence when the bottom plate, with the receptacle, is lowered upon the sheet the impact causes asmall quantity of the pastecontents of the receptacle to flow through the discharg openings to and upon the proximate parts of the sheet.

The outer walls of the respective feed preferably depend slightly below the bottom plate, as indicated at 15, so as to bear upon the sheet when the receptacle is in down position, and thus maintain the disof the paper to permit the free discharge of the paste from the chambers.

We preferably provide each of: the feed chambers with an adjustable gate valve which depends into the respective discharge openings. In the present instance each valve comprises a plate 16, the upper end of which is provided with a curved lip 17 adapted to be hung on the top of the adjacent outer wall of the structure, which wall is provided with a set-screw 18 that extends through a suitably-disposed leaf spring 19 onthe exterior of the wall and bears against the movable plate in such a manner that the plate can be nicely adjusted to vary the width of the discharge opening, as occasion may require. v

As a simple and efficient means to facilitate and insure the positioning of a group of boxes in proper relation to the pasted portions of the wrapper, we provide, in the space between the depending side chambers of the paste receptacle, a guide device com-- prising, preferably, two spaced-apart end walls 20 and a rear connecting wall 21 therefor; which walls are conveniently supported on the bottom plate "for the receptacle as shown. When the receptacle is in its normal or down position this guide device lies in close relation to the positioned wrapper and thus serves as an ellicient stop and positioning means for a group of boxes (B) manually imposed on the wrapper and slid between the side chambers. (See Fig. 4:.)

Any suitable means for bodily raising the paste-receptacle may be employed. In the present instance, ed at its respective ends, adj acent'the rear, with up-standing lugs 22 which are pivotally connected to a pair of rearwardlyextending arms 23 fast on the respective ends of the rock-frame 24: pivoted to upstanding lugs 25 secured to the table. By this construction the receptacle, together with the bottom plate, is flexibly supported and thus permitted normally to rest by gravity in horizontal position upon the underlying wrapper or wrappers. A simple mode of operating the receptacle consists in connecting the rear projecting end of one of the arms 23, by means of a link 26, with a suitably-disposed foot treadle lever 27, by the operation or" which the rock-frame and its arms 28 can be actuated to raise the receptacle bodily above the wrapper in order to permit the removal and manipulation of the pasted sheet and the imposed groupv of boxes thereon. This done the receptacle is permitted to drop and thus apply paste to a succeeding wrapper and also permit the another group of accurate posltioning of boxes on the wrapper, and so on.

It is to be understood thatwe do not limit our invention to the details of OOIlSt TUOtiOn the bottom plate is provid-.

discharge openings 111g a contracted herein shown and described, as the same may be modified within the principle of our invention and the scope oi the appended claims. p 7

We claim- 1. In an apparatus for applying adhesive to wrappers, a wrapper support, a unitary paste receptacle-comprising a main upper. chamber and a series of depending feed chambers integral with and supplied from said upper chamber, said feed chambers terminating at their lower ends in contracted discharge openings which overhang the adjacent rear and side edges of the wrapper and afford a space to receive the packages to be wrapped, and connections permitting bodily vertical reciprocation of said receptacle above the wrapper support.

2. In an apparatus for applying adhesive to wrappers, a wrappersupport, a unitary paste receptacle comprising a main upper chamber and a series of depending feed chambers integral with and supplied from said upper chamber, said feed chambers terminating at their lower ends in contracted discharge openings which overhang the adjacent rear and side edges ofthe wrapper and afford a vspaceto receive the packages to be wrapped, means for regulating the size of the said openings, and connections permitting bodily vertical reciprocation of said receptacle above the wrapper support.

8. In an apparatus for applying adhesive to wrappers, a wrapper support, a unitary paste receptacle comprising a main upper chamber and a series of depending feed chambers integral with and said upper chamber, minating at their lowerends in contracted discharge openings which overhang the adjacent rear and side edges of the wrapper and afford a space to receive the packages to be wrapped, means positioned to rest upon the wrapper and maintain said openings slightly above the surface of the wrapper, and connections permitting bodily vertical reciprocation of said receptacle above the wrapper support.

to wrappers, a wrapper support, a unitary paste receptacle including two spaced-apart depending feed chambers having contracted at their lower ends, a package guide supportedbetween said chambers, and connections permitting bodily reciprocation of said receptacle above the wrapper support.

5. In an apparatus for applying adhesive to wrappers, a wrapper support, a unitary paste receptacle comprising a main upper chamber, a depending rear feed chamber and two spaced-apart depending side feed chambers, each of said feed chambers havlower discharge portion,

supplied from said feed chamber tera supporting bottom plate having openings therein in communication With said discharge portion, a package gu'idesupported on said receptacle in the space between the side feed chambers, means for flexibly supporting said receptacle to permit it normally to drop by gravity on an underlying Wrapper, and means for temporarily raising said receptacle.

Signed at OsWe o, in the county of Os- 10 wego and State of llew York this 30 day of March, A. D. 1920.

WILLIAM J. ELDER. CHARLES N. MOREHOUSE. 

